Linda-Marie Barrett / Executive
Director:
Reading: Six Little Words by Sally Page. Gorgeously written novel set in Dorset, England, and infused with color and nature imagery. I look forward to settling in with it each evening.
Listening: As I tend to spend my waking hours avoiding listening to music coming at me electronically, I am more and more tuned into the sounds of the world just outside my office window. Wind, rain, birdsong, the crunch of leaves as creatures (including human creatures) shuffle by are my daily background.
Watching: I have finished all the cozy murder and romantic dramas currently in my queue and need recommendations.
Candice Huber / Membership:
Reading: All my new issues of crochet and cross stitch magazines! Working hard on holiday gifts!
Listening: The Stranger in Room Six by Jane Corry. It's not exactly what I thought, but the characters and audiobook reader have me hooked in enough that I'm interested to see what happens.
Watching: I watched my thirteenth spooky (ish) movie of the season, I Don't Understand You. It's about a gay couple who takes a vacation to Italy that does NOT go as planned when they start accidentally murdering people. It was mostly comedy, and I wasn't a fan of the ending, but it was entertaining enough!
Nicki Leone / Communications:
Reading: Between SIBA's big transition to the "bright future" and adjusting to living with my folks and their schedules, I'm not getting much reading done. I have a couple of pocket guides to trees and birds I take with me when I walk the dog, but I'm looking forward to when SIBA launches its new website so that I can settle back with my BWR (Big Winter Read) - something dense and deep and at least 500 pages long.
Listening: Two of my favorite podcasts have new episodes: Slightly Foxed is all about the Brontes, how fun is that? And Between the Covers features the poet Diana Arterian, whose new book gives voice to a Roman Empress known almost exclusively for being Nero's mother. These imaginitive dives into the minds of women sidelined by history are like honey to me.
Watching: The birdfeeders have just been filled for the winter, so most of my "watching" is with binoculars, looking out the kitchen window that has the best view.
SP Rankin / Website Administrator:
Reading: Jennifer Dasal's The Club: Where American Women Found Refuge in Belle Époque Paris has been in my queue for a little while and it's finally underway. It's so much my kind of thing, I sort of think I made it up.
Listening: The audiobook of Little Bosses Everywhere: How the Pyramid Scheme Shaped America. Given my predilection for all things scammy and culty, this well-researched history of multi-level marketing by the journalist Bridget Read is completely fascinating.
Watching: October usually means old horror movies for me, from the ridiculous (Manos: Hands of Fate) to the sublime (Cat People) to the sublimely ridiculous (The Lair of the White Worm). And speaking of sublimely ridiculous monsters, I am also watching The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City.
Andrea Richardson / Sales:
Reading: Well, I forgot that I have book club tonight so I am cramming Liliana's Invincible Summer by Cristina Rivera Garza today, I guess.
Listening: Call me basic but I can't stop bopping to "Opalite" from the new Taylor Swift album. It's so dang catchy!
Watching: The changing leaves outside! Fall is hitting RVA and I love it. Now, let's get these mosquitoes gone.
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